Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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